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Pablo Picasso
Paintings, Quotes, & Biography
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This painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, was painted in 1907 and is the most famous example of cubism painting. In this painting, Picasso abandoned all known form and representation of traditional art. He used distortion of female's body and geometric forms in an innovative way, which challenge the expectation that paintings will offer idealized representations of female beauty. It also shows the influence of African art on Picasso.
This painting is a large work and took nine months to complete. It demonstrates the true genius and novelty of Picasso's passion. He created hundreds of sketches and studies to prepare for the final work. Some critics argue that the painting was a reaction to Henri Matisse's Le bonheur de vivre and Blue Nude.
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Painter & Paalette 1915. This started out as an image of the artist with his pallette contemplating a still life on a table, and the central vertical section of Picasso's composition (incorporating the mirror, window, still life, canvas, palette and half the painter's body) has so many details in common with Matisse's painting that the term 'paraphrase' seems appropriate. Picasso knew Goldfish and Palette well for it had been with Leonce Rosenberg from 1915 until 1923, when, thanks to the impassioned lobbying of no less a person than Andre Breton, it was purchased by Jacques Doucet. He also knew that, rightly or wrongly, Matisse was convinced it had influenced his own Harlequin of 1915.
Placed alongside Matisse's The Artist and His Model, Picasso's Painter and Model could be interpreted as a point-blank refutation of the Matissean principle of attempting to record a visual impression. The daringly abstracted Goldfish and Palette, on the other hand, is paraphrased in the spirit of homage, not criticism.
Masterpieces of Pablo Picasso
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Guernica -
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon -
The Old Guitarist
